Re: Manipulate yum repo files in %post

2008-10-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Robin Bowes wrote: > seth vidal wrote: >> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 21:36 +, Robin Bowes wrote: >>> Chris O'Regan wrote: > I want to know how best to make it available *without* doing that. You can drop it on a web server somewhere and wget the file. >>> Hmmm, a possibility; is wget guaran

Re: Debian support -- Good news and bad news.

2008-10-28 Thread Léon Keijser
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 20:54 +0100, Javier Palacios wrote: > That's really good, not only because of the success, but also because > there is someone able/willing to test the deployment. My own tests > are quite limited due to time and also to absence of a clean machine > to install where I can safe

Re: Debian support -- Good news and bad news.

2008-10-28 Thread Javier Palacios
> First, the good news. I've verified that automated installs of Debian > "Etch" work properly. That's really good, not only because of the success, but also because there is someone able/willing to test the deployment. My own tests are quite limited due to time and also to absence of a clean mach

RE: VMWare / Cobbler Work flow

2008-10-28 Thread Joseph Boyer Jr.
Here is a simple kickstart snippet that I use to Identify virtual machines base on their MAC address: set $mac_address = $getVar('$mac_address', None) #if $mac_address #set $mac_prefix = $mac_address[0:8] #set $my_prefix = $mac_prefix.lower() #if $my_prefix == "00:0c:29" or $my_prefix == "00:05:

Re: VMWare / Cobbler Work flow

2008-10-28 Thread Rob Crittenden
Aaron Lippold wrote: > Hello, > > I was hoping some of the folks working the VMWare Cobbler integration > could chat a little on the general work flow for creating VMWare > target profiles and how a development team would collaborate on > developing them. I have a team now working to develop a set

Re: Manipulate yum repo files in %post

2008-10-28 Thread Chris O'Regan
> ehh? CentOS has used yum from its inception, and in ** all ** > released versions; before that, yum was in use, pushed back to > RHL 7 series by me locally. Apologies, I only starting using CentOS at v5 and just assumed that it suffered from the same yumlessness as RHEL4 and less. Chris ___

Re: Manipulate yum repo files in %post

2008-10-28 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 11:37 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Chris O'Regan wrote: > > >> He was talking about kickstart. > >> kickstart is a mode of anaconda > >> anaconda requires yum > >> yum requires urlgrabber > > > > True for modern versions of Red Hat-based distros. Anything

Re: Manipulate yum repo files in %post

2008-10-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Chris O'Regan wrote: >> He was talking about kickstart. >> kickstart is a mode of anaconda >> anaconda requires yum >> yum requires urlgrabber > > True for modern versions of Red Hat-based distros. Anything prior to > RHEL5 and CentOS5, for example, do not use yum and will not

Re: Manipulate yum repo files in %post

2008-10-28 Thread Chris O'Regan
> He was talking about kickstart. > kickstart is a mode of anaconda > anaconda requires yum > yum requires urlgrabber True for modern versions of Red Hat-based distros. Anything prior to RHEL5 and CentOS5, for example, do not use yum and will not have urlgrabber. (Not sure when yum was introduce

Re: Manipulate yum repo files in %post

2008-10-28 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 10:08 -0400, Chris O'Regan wrote: > >> [...] is wget guaranteed to be available in the kickstart > >> environment? > > > > no but urlgrabber is there - it has to be for yum to work. > > Well, cobbler expects wget to be there; many of the built-in snippets > use it. Just be

Re: Manipulate yum repo files in %post

2008-10-28 Thread Chris O'Regan
>> [...] is wget guaranteed to be available in the kickstart >> environment? > > no but urlgrabber is there - it has to be for yum to work. Well, cobbler expects wget to be there; many of the built-in snippets use it. Just because yum requires urlgrabber does not mean that it is guaranteed to

Re: importing distro - error ?

2008-10-28 Thread Tom Brown
> Do you have syslinux installed? > > rpm -qa |grep syslinux > apparently i did not no!! although not sure why that dependency was not picked up... ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/c

Re: importing distro - error ?

2008-10-28 Thread Harry Hoffman
Do you have syslinux installed? rpm -qa |grep syslinux On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:44 +, Tom Brown wrote: > Firstly this is on a new setup so i dont actually know if this is an > error as such yet but when in import a RHEL4 into cobbler thats running > on Fedora 9 i get the following > > --

importing distro - error ?

2008-10-28 Thread Tom Brown
Firstly this is on a new setup so i dont actually know if this is an error as such yet but when in import a RHEL4 into cobbler thats running on Fedora 9 i get the following (associating kickstarts) - using default kickstart file choice - using default kickstart file choice -

Re: Manipulate yum repo files in %post

2008-10-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Ronald J Yacketta wrote: > IIRC the cobbler dir under /var/www/cobbler (think that is the default) is > recreated every time you run a cobbler sync. I ran into this when I placed > some files under cobbler/dir to use wget and noticed that the dir was > deleted after a syn. > > I ended up creating